Afraid of Its Own Fishy Reflection
Stephen Ornes
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http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20100526/Note2.asp
Male Chichlids are a type of freshwater fish, that go to after fish who dare to cross there path. When some chichlids see there one reflection in a mirror aggressively. Although these situations look the same, there brain reacts differently. When scientists looked at the fish's hormones they didn't see a difference but when they looked at the brain there was a difference. When they looked at the fish's brain while looking in it's reflection they saw it was active in a place similar to amygdala. In a humans brain this is where you associate with fear.
This is affecting scientific knowledge, we are learning that some animals don't even know how there reflection looks like. The limitations in this article is that you can't see how fish actually react when they see there reflection. I had a question how don't they know there own reflection.
When I was searching for an article, the title of this article sounded strange but interesting at the same time. My attention was grabbed when I read how fish react to there own reflection. I learned that some animals react differently to there reflections. I believe this is reliable because it was tested out more then one time. I felt amazed that fish act so aggressively when they see there reflection.
Great job! What a coincidence, I did the same article for the second current events, 2 times in a row. First the oily gulf, which I did for the first current events, than the fishy reflection.
ReplyDeleteNice, that means fish would attack their own reflections and if you put lots of mirrors in a fish inhabited place all the fish would think that there was another pack of fish right there and attack?
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